Technology Architect

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership for technology solutions that support product and business outcomes within Stifel's Technology Product Development organization.
• Balances functional requirements, non-functional concerns, engineering practices, and enterprise standards within a regulated financial services environment.
• Guides and enables product engineering teams to make sound technical decisions within established architectural principles, patterns, and guardrails.
• Focuses not only on solution design, but also on creating clarity, reducing unnecessary complexity, promoting reuse, mentoring engineers, and enabling teams to deliver with increasing technical autonomy.

Requirements

• Design end-to-end technology solutions aligned with Stifel’s cloud, data, security, platform, and technology strategies.
• Guide and enable product engineering teams to make sound technical design decisions within established architectural principles, patterns, and guardrails.
• Translate business and product needs into clear technical direction, balancing functional and non-functional requirements.
• Partner with product owners, engineers, platform teams, data teams, security, SREs, and other architects throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify, document, promote, and encourage reuse of architectural patterns, practices, technical guidance, and established capabilities before introducing new technology or custom solutions.
• Mentor engineers and Associate Technology Architects by providing the technical context needed to make sound decisions independently.
• Ensure solutions align with modern software engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, observability, resilience, and reliability principles.
• Incorporate enterprise data, analytics, integration, and AI considerations into technology designs where applicable.
• Identify architectural risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and technical debt, and communicate them clearly to stakeholders.
• Contribute to architecture governance through reusable patterns, documented decisions, and practical guardrails that enable delivery.
• Participate in backlog refinement and planning where architectural guidance improves story readiness and technical decision-making.
• Evaluate and support AI-enabled capabilities and emerging technologies where appropriate.
• Continuously simplify architecture, improve engineering processes, and reduce unnecessary dependencies on the Architecture function.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, data persistence, distributed systems, and security fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of